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An Anthropological Defense of God (Paperback)
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Anthropology--the study of man--is unlike every other study because
humans are its subject. And because we are its subject we cannot
manage the philosophic and emotional distance necessary to see
clearly. Unable to stand apart from ourselves to comprehend our own
truth, we are compelled to assume things about ourselves that we
cannot prove. In a word, anthropology begins in faith. Lloyd
Sandelands approaches the anthropological quest for God by
comparing the faiths of modern social science and of the Christian
church. Sandelands describes the social scientific faith
articulated by Hume, Kant, Rousseau, Schopenhauer among others, as
an imagined state of nature that sees the individual as solitary,
self-sufficient, and contented. By contrast, the Christian faith
unites us as male and female persons in one flesh before God. The
challenge in the author's view is to decide which faith to build
our lives upon. Sandelands poses questions about the basic terms of
human study--what is a person, and what is society?--and how do the
different metaphysics of science and Church lead to different
anthropologies? A worthwhile anthropology must address the
questions of what constitutes human freedom, desire, and the nature
of the good. Comparing the answers given by science and by the
church, he finds that the one paradoxically denies freedom, denies
want, and denies the good, while the other affirms freedom, affirms
want, and affirms the good. Between these two anthropologies he
finds there is but one true study of man. A companion to
Sandelands' Man and Nature in God, his most recent book, An
Anthropological Defense of God attempts to establish that an
anthropology in God succeeds where an anthropology in science
fails. Such success is measured not only by its ideas and findings
about man, but even more by its wisdom in teaching us how to live.
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